[MOC] 60052 meets clone brand: Dull City Railway

[Princess Amy]

Apologies for two reasons: firstly, because I'll probably offend some Lego fans by mixing clone brand and Lego. Secondly, because as this is a clone but also an MOC, I wasn't sure where to post it. I know clone discussion goes here though and I don't want to tarnish the train tech board with bricks with CB on the studs.

I happened upon a Click Brick set for £30, down from a £100 RRP. I bought it, carry handle and all, and opened it up, and was amazed. 2000+ bricks, and most of them Lego quality. The only exceptions:

- The figures are a custom design

- White pieces look just as bad as the Poundland brands, with a "dirty" weak colour

- Clear pieces can sometimes have small defects (had to use some straight nail clippers to remove a tiny bit of flash that stopped them interlocking)

Other than that, for the price, I couldn't complain.

I had lying around the blue cargo train, 60052, and seeing that this stadium seemed almost aimed at train collectors, I promptly caused a stadium disaster that led to it turning magically into a train and station. I set an intentional limit that I would only use pieces from these two sets which altogether cost me about £150.

I forgot to take any before pics. The stadium is constructed of ten individual grandstands that I locked together by swapping a few pieces around.

The Works

The best feature by far is the design of the roof, which I stole for use in my MOC. I was impressed by the supports and wanted to reuse them in a new context.

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The complete build

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The train

Because 60052 has three different lengths of wagon, the train is a mishmash, but it runs well around the track. These show just how many 1x3 cheeses and 2x2 windows you get in this set.

Almost every brick in the set is this same grey colour. If I had the time I would like to change it about a bit adding blue bricks from my collection for some detail. Here's how it matches up with the locomotive:

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The station

Two platforms straddling a single track, so I could just use the 60052 pieces and have a loop.

The design is based on a British Rail 1960s station. Because I had all of the dull grey bricks, I came up with a new genre:

Interestingly dull

And that's what the station's aimed for all around.

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The roof

Here you can see the roof held up with the supports from the original stadium, but I've rotated the roof tiles to create a much more epic expanse.

This shows just how strong the Click Brick pieces are. The supports and the hinges hold this whole roof up, although I have added the yellow supports from 60052 for some added support in case I knock it, as it's annoying to put back up again.

You can also see some features here: the dull entrance with some glass that doesn't really add anything to the scene, and an expensive bull statue, because people are forever spending millions on statues to brighten up stations instead of spending the money on the actual stations! (I also wanted to use the bull from 60052).

Here is a close up of the roof supports. Individually they're weak, but together they are strong and add just that little bit of needed tension.

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Platform 1

Just like a real British Rail station, the platform to London has a roof, and some (for show) back rooms for toilets and such.

The staircase leads to a footbridge.

There are no seats for passengers as they might be dangerous and people might sleep on them.

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Platform 2

Again, just like a British Rail station, the platform to elsewhere is just a glorified halt, plain all over with a steel wall on one edge.

There is here a ticket office, not to sell tickets as that would be useful, but to charge people who haven't bought one. It's the excess fares room. It's suitably grey, using the computer screen from 60052 but making sure there are no windows, to make the poor soul's job a little harder.

The main feature of Platform 2 is the working elevator.

Once more, this is fashioned after a British Rail elevator: it only works half the time. It gets stuck sometimes. I'm new to designing elevators so am not sure quite how to get it to go up and down smoothly without obstructing too much.

Nonetheless, if you push it down, it will come back up again with the winch.

Connects to the footbridge like so:

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Not in the set

This is my enlighten train.

It's bootlego, but it's much lower quality than Click Brick. It runs smoothly on the track though.

This is my passenger train.

I modified the engine car to be a full passenger car, and then tried to make another car from my available pieces. The third car doesn't look *too* bad but I'm not too happy with it. I use it as a DMU/EMU type thing.

That's about it!

Edited June 7, 2015 by Princess Amy

[THERIZE]

One tip: the lightning is pretty bad. Try making pictures with more light. It doesnt need to be fancy studio light, a 5 euro flashlight would be enough. and the build: well its different. I have never seen a design like this but it looks cool!

Edited June 7, 2015 by THERIZE